Congress Is Out Of Gas & Car Companies Must Hit The Road With The Energy Bill...

I have just finished reading an article by one of the greatest writers at the Washington Post, and I have some news for you about what's going on in Washington.

Cash is king---the Bush administration didn't issue fuel economy standards before leaving Washington. I don't understand why... we are digging ourselves into a hole at the gas pumps.
The clock is ticking, the Obama administration now has a free hand to set its own standards that will save consumers money at the pump, reduce oil dependency and greenhouse gases, plus make American car companies more competitive.
Thank goodness, the 2007 energy bill required new cars and trucks to meet a fleetwide average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, a 40 percent increase over today's average of 25 m.p.g. What's more congress intended this as a floor, not a ceiling, and ordered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to write specific regulations.
Under the gun, last may, as part of these regulations, the agency set an interim fleetwide standard of 31.6 m.p.g. by 2015. The new standard, was right on the button, it pushed the car makers more than halfway to the 2020 goal. Automakers being tried and true have suggested they can meet these arduous goals with ease. Much to my surprise studies have said they can do even better---at least as high as 35 m.p.g. by 2015, and 40 m.p.g. by 2020, with no changes in current technology.
Getting their ducks in a row, General Motors and Ford provided production plans to congress last year to show they would make more fuel-efficient cars. To get the ball rolling, the Obama administration should make such vehicles a condition of any future help. No matter what Detroit does, the new administration must set much tougher fuel-economy standards. Kporchhaulling

Safety tip of the day: figure it out, drivers need to use some common sense to prevent creating major traffic tie-ups. Sometimes drivers pull straight into an intersection knowing they will not be able to move or clear the intersection at all, due to traffic backups ahead of them. When drivers block the intersection like this the cross traffic cannot move and the entire intersection is gridlocked. These traffic tie-ups can be prevented if drivers will try to look ahead and not pull forward into intersections when the traffic congestion ahead of them will not allow them to make it all the way through the intersection. Get firing on all cylinders, help relieve traffic congestion and make everyone's drive smoother and faster. Kporchhaulling